One method of ripping just the audio from a DVD

I recently decided I wanted to purchase the audio CD version (or electronic equivalent) of a concert DVD that I've owned for a few years. However, in looking at the options on iTunes and Amazon, I discovered that the CD version was missing five songs off the DVD, including two of my favorites. So I thought I'd just rip the Dolby 5.1 music out of the DVD and create my own "CD."

Little did I know this would be as tricky as it turned out to be. After a few false starts, including some time wasted trying to extract and convert the PCM version (I never did get that working), I finally found a solution that worked perfectly for extracting the 5.1 audio track.

This how-to was the key to my successful extraction. Becuase that how-to is thorough and includes numerous screen shots, I'm not going to try to replicate it here. In the rest of this hint, however, I'll pr...